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News If elected, the Conservative Party would take away Ofcom's policy-making functions, David Cameron said on Monday. The Tory leader was making a speech attacking quangos - of which the telecoms regulator is one of the most prominent. [07 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment Seven years into the project and the Conservatives want to put it under the knife. The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT -... [07 Jul 2009]
Tories: Time to wage war on cyber crime
News The Conservatives have criticised the government's response to the growing threat from cyber crime and unveiled plans for a national e-crime unit and a dedicated e-crime minister if they win the next election. [06 Mar 2008]
Is satellite car-toll tech ready for prime time?
News The Conservatives have raised concerns over the technology behind the government's plans to cut congestion by charging motorists for every mile they travel. But the Conservatives said there are still... [06 Jun 2005]
Tories give Labour support over ID cards
News After months of opposition wrangling, the Conservatives have pledged their support to the government's ID card Bill, which the party had previously described as "deeply flawed". Some senior Conservatives... [14 Dec 2004]
Tories: We will end the database state
News The Conservatives have said they will cut back on government databases and increase public privacy if they win the next election. The Conservatives have pledged to cut government databases (photo credit:... [17 Sep 2009]
Election special: Blair gives a little under IR35 pressure
News Despite a recent win in the High Court, Labour ministers are still on the defensive following pledges from both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to scrap the unpopular tax in their election manifestos. [29 May 2001]
George Osborne
AS Profile Osborne and the Conservatives want to achieve this by relying on common hardware and open data formats. The Conservatives hope that smaller IT projects will be easier to manage and less prone to delays... [29 Sep 2009]
Tories slam gov't for lack of open source love
News In the statement, the Conservatives released recommendations drawn up by Mark Thompson, a lecturer in information systems at Cambridge University's Judge Business School. Thompson was asked by the... [28 Jan 2009]
Labour: ID card bill will return before the summer
News Legislation to introduce the controversial biometric ID cards did not make it through parliament before the election was called, and Labour said this was the fault of the Conservatives. Only last week, the... [15 Apr 2005]
Election '05: High-tech v doorstep canvassing
Comment Allan is retiring and the seat is being contested this time by candidates from the BNP, Christian Peoples Alliance, Conservatives, Green Party, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP. A few minutes later and it's a case of... [05 May 2005]
Election '05: Bookies tip Blair for 60-seat victory
News The only point on which the bookies and the opinion polls agree is that the Conservatives are facing another election disaster. A Betfair spokesman said: "Punters aren't giving the Conservatives a chance... [29 Apr 2005]
www.election-scandals.com: How the web is undermining the party line
Comment Perhaps the only people with even less in common with the Conservatives than the SWP are the pro-euro Conservatives.www.conservative-party.com redirects users straight to www.proeuro.co.uk. For genuine... [31 May 2001]
Leader: ID cards fight must go on
Leader Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and the House of Lords had been united in opposing the introduction of ID cards until the climb-down, presented as a 'compromise', finally let the government... [31 Mar 2006]
ID cards 'could make identity fraud worse'
News The government's ID cards project will not combat ID fraud but could instead make the problem worse, according to the Conservatives who have seized upon the controversy surrounding the scheme to score some easy points. [03 Feb 2006]
